Berrelli’s Italian Chophouse

Excellent dinner tonight at Berrelli's! Confused to see a 3.8 rating, definitely not our experience! Food was excellent, well-executed and plentiful. Pictures of our entrees: the bone-in veal chop Parmesan, seafood risotto, and sea scallops with side broccolini and potatoes. The veal chop was huge; my husband could only finish half of it! My stepdaughter's seafood risotto was full of flavor and the shellfish was perfectly cooked. My scallops were EXCELLENT and the pureed and orange reduction were exquisite. Our server was sweet and attentive. 10/10 recommend.Kid-friendliness: Very accommodating to littles; coloring pages and crayons. High chairs available. Mocktails by request.

Atmosphere was really nice, love the architecture! Staff is friendly. Food took an hour to come out after appetizers. Waiter poured us a half glass of wine (we did not order) (Pinot Grigio) instead of (Sav Blanc) and made us pay for it! Unbelievable! My pasta literally had no salt and it had porsuitto in it which should give it a salt flavor. Even adding salt was not enough. 18% waiter tip was automatically added to bill which was not fair since we should be able to choose less tip since we had to wait so long. Staff was accommodating to our cousins food allergies, that was a bonus! Otherwise, I would not recommend this place. Save your money.

The server seemed very inexperienced. She looked at the menu while we were ordering. She was constantly confused about what we were ordering and made the entire dining experience very uncomfortable.My sister ordered the clams linguini with a side Caesar salad. The server said “Ok, I’ll ask the kitchen if you can have a salad instead of pasta”. My sister then said “no, I want the clams linguini AND a side Caesar salad”. The server still didn’t understand and kept repeating, “okay so I’ll remove the linguini and give you a salad”. It wasn’t until I spoke up and said “She wants to ADD on a side Caesar salad to her meal which is clams linguini” that the server finally understood.When one person in our party asked for the scallop dish she said “you can’t order that” it wasn’t until we asked further then she explained that there weren’t enough scallops for the standalone scallop dish, and they only had enough for “the rush” and the seafood risotto. The person in our party then ordered the seafood risotto and it came out with zero scallops in it.She repeatedly made comments to our two 16 year olds that they “must be really hungry” “wow you guys are ordering a lot of food” “do you girls still have room for that?” Those comments are just not appropriate to say to young impressionable girls who are conscientious of their weight.When my 12 year old niece ordered a lemonade the server said “Okay well I would need to make that.”My brother in law asked what the “ Stable 12 Black Bear” was she replied with “A beer.” Of course he knew it was a beer, it was under the beer menu, he was asking what kind of beer it was.My husbands steak was raw when he asked for it to be medium rare. The manager was very accommodating and removed the steak from the check because my husband couldn’t eat it which we appreciated.The manager was very nice, the restaurant overall was beautiful, but the server needs some serious training on both the menu as well as socialization in general. It was our last night on vacation and we were wanting a nice dinner out with the whole family but instead it was ruined. Four people in our party have worked as waiters/waitresses for many years, so we know what standards we were held to, and expect the same when we go out to eat.

My family all had pasta dishes, the vodka dish was really good, my husband had the risotto and it was just okay, my two kids had the spaghetti with meatballs and they enjoyed it

Overall, I went and did not have a great time. First of all, not only was the food just okay: it’s so severely overpriced. It’s actually insulting how much everything costs. A plain hamburger is $19. A filet mignon is over $60. What is this, the Upper East Side?? But not only that, they automatically add an 18% tip. We were 2 people. Not only was the service obnoxiously slow, the waiters were inattentive and overall quite disappointing. Although the scenery is quite pretty, I do not recommend coming here unless you’re looking to be disappointed and cheated out a hundred dollars for a simple meal.